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To celebrate our 75th year we’ve been diving into the Archives. This week we travel back over 30 years to look at the program from O’Week 1993, to see exactly how far ‘about $4’ could take you….

Coming to us fresh from the days of biro and photocopier publishing, the 1993 O’Week Guide is a masterpiece of dot matrix and vague costing. Starting from the thoughtful layout of the front cover, this guide demonstrates some of the artist’s best block lettering. While the early part of the program is fairly straightforward, the reader is encouraged to keep going to the bigger uni events towards the end of the week…

Here you’ll note that you could go a long way with very little in the ’90s, even if the treasurer costing the event hadn’t quite worked out the exact cover charge. If you did happen to have more than $10 left at the end of the week, you would have been in for a treat at O’Ball, where both INXS and Men at Work headlined. The pub crawl to finish things off was comprehensive to say the least, with 9 venues in 4 hours…

Needless to say, much has changed since O’Week 1993: most days in the current O’Week are non-drinking, and even then, half the pubs that used to be on the O’Week Pub Crawl have, like the Darling Cellar, been closed down. Happily, if the paper goes into the printer crooked nowadays, it self-corrects, rather than presenting a Pub Crawl program on an angle. Whatever the era however, the desire to ‘Win Back the Cup’ still burns bright in the heart of Aquinians, and, even if you still have questions, they will still be ‘easily answered by someone nearby.’ Once an Aquinian, always an Aquinian…